Are birds dinosaurs? Matt Haber shows how tackling this question raises a big metaphysical question: the nature of identity. He draws lessons about how the paleontological distinginction between typology and transformation, on how to do metaphysics, and on how philosophy can challenge our preconceptions.
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Read MoreYou Call That a Velociraptor? A Philosophical Review of "Jurassic Park"
Reading "Jurassic Park" nineteen times can teach you things--for example, how to misidentify a dinosaur species and how not to make that mistake again.
Read MorePlatyzilla & the Value of Fossils (a response to Turner’s “Are Dinosaurs Overrated?”)
Adrian responds to Derek's claim that the invertebrate fossil record makes for better evidence than the vertebrate (or at least dinosaur) record...
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Why humbler creatures like the ammonoids might teach us more about evolution
Read MoreTriceratops Against Concepts
Philosophers of science often analyze scientific concepts, and often justify this with the claim that getting the conceptual housework done helps scientific work. But do scientists actually use concepts in the way philosophers discuss them? Adrian's not so sure....
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